Function createCurl

src/network.cpp:22–47

static CURL* createCurl() {
	CURL* curl = curl_easy_init();
	assert(curl);

	// curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1L);
	std::string userAgent = APP_NAME + " " + APP_EDITION_NAME + "/" + APP_VERSION;
	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, userAgent.c_str());
	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
	// Timeout to wait on initial HTTP connection.
	// This is lower than the typical HTTP timeout of 60 seconds to avoid DAWs from aborting plugin scans.
	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30);

	// If curl can't resolve a DNS entry, it sends a signal to interrupt the process.
	// However, since we use curl on non-main thread, this crashes the application.
	// So tell curl not to signal.
	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL, 1);

	// Load root certificates
	std::string caPath = asset::system("cacert.pem");
	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CAINFO, caPath.c_str());

	// Don't verify HTTPS certificates if verifyHttpsCerts is false
	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, settings::verifyHttpsCerts);

	return curl;
}


static size_t writeStringCallback(char* ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void* userdata) {